After his first recording dedicated to Rachmaninov's Preludes, pianist Guillaume Vincent returns to the origins, to the roots of modern pianism and to his own roots. In the first decades of the 1800s Liszt put an end to the polyphonic approach imposed by the masters of the keyboard of previous centuries, inaugurating the broken lines, in suspended times, to the poetic harmonies of the piano that we know today. Guillaume Vincent, who discovered Liszt's music at the age of twelve, dedicating a good part of his adolescence to the study of his music, chose a few rare pages of his prolific production, written in 1849 shortly after Chopin's death, with whom Liszt shared a deep friendship and mutual admiration. The chiaroscuro pieces that inspire this program can be seen as a tribute to the poetic imagination of one pianist composer to another. The sparkling virtuosity, often full of playful fun, is here challenged by more stormy, more passionate movements, with a myriad of counterpoints that the soloist outlines with a firm, empathetic hand. Here Liszt never falls into mere melancholy: without betraying his sense of mystery, Guillaume Vincent plunges us into a fascinating universe to show us, by his own admission, all Liszt's faces: great virtuoso, colourist, man of religion and passionate lover of the voice
